The Appeal-Democrat is a broadsheet newspaper published five days a week in Marysville, California, United States and covering Yuba and Sutter counties.
Hoiles, who built the Freedom Communications newspaper chain around the Santa Ana paper that became the Orange County Register, bought the Appeal-Democrat in 1946[1] and placed his son-in-law Robert C. Hardie in charge as its publisher.
Even as residents and businesses gradually shifted west from Marysville to nearby Yuba City, Hardie kept the Appeal-Democrat in its longtime home, twice acquiring new headquarters there (in 1950 and 1986).
In 2013, Freedom sold the Appeal-Democrat to Vista California, a subsidiary of Horizon Publications.
[3] In 2020, the paper reduced publication to five days a week; circulation fell to 4,500 during the 2020s.